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by geofft 5y ago
There's a fairly active community of folks gaming on the major public cloud providers, which only provide images for Windows Server, but games work just fine. In fact, NVIDIA provides an official gaming AMI based on Windows Server: ht
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by geofft 5y ago
The economy, as you know it, exists because government says, "Nope, we know best!" It is a survival of the fittest environment solely because the people in charge of the government don't want Star Trek socialism. It is true
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by geofft 5y ago
It's one way to use PGP, and it's not the only way. Almost certainly the most common use of PGP by number of operations per day is verifying RPM and apt signatures, which relies on trusting specific keys delivered through out-of-b
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by geofft 5y ago
I am guessing "Anyone who gets seriously close to threatening the FBI's existence will get extrajudicially prevented from doing so"? For a lawmaker, you don't even have to do anything legally or (particularly) morally qu
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by geofft 5y ago
In a very practical sense, I (the human writing this comment) pay close attention to the security of my GitHub account and to what SSH keys are added, because I use it regularly and care about the security of my account. I also care about t
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by geofft 5y ago
> The OpenPGP standard has provisions to ensure that the signatures are from a particular entity. No, it does not - it has provisions to ensure that the signatures are from a particular private key. Mapping that to a human-meaningful e
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by geofft 5y ago
I think the wage theft point is relevant (I was going to bring it up too) for two reasons: 1. Directly, wage theft affects people's ability to get out of poverty and build wealth. Wage theft is a problem that disproportionately affects
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by geofft 5y ago
New York also has been getting increasingly richer. Mrs. Jensen's kids almost certainly don't have a deep-seated desire to commit robbery, they want the material results of having committed a robbery. If you want to stop robbery,
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by geofft 5y ago
Does patrolling the area prevent 13-year-olds from being shot and killed? This sounds like a silly question, because it's so ingrained in how we think about policing and crime, but I think it's a question we have to reassess when
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by geofft 5y ago
You're not an "actual owner" if non-ring-0 code you run on your processor can gain ring 0. I agree that there is value in having control over your devices. But control, by its nature, must be limited. If everyone controls you
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by geofft 5y ago
Well, yes, the problem is the idea of policing itself. How do you determine if the police are being successful? If there are more arrests, are they more successful? Perhaps you ask about crime statistics - but those statistics are recorded
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by geofft 5y ago
"Embrace, extend, extinguish" isn't real and has never happened. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis... is full of examples that failed and not a single one that succeeded. So, n
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by geofft 5y ago
You're not wrong, but, the faster you get out of that organization (or into a healthier part of that organization), the faster you'll start growing. An organization that penalizes asking questions is almost certainly broken in oth
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by geofft 5y ago
Probably a reference to the "residential school" system in Canada, which largely served as a way to extract indigenous kids from their nations and raise them instead in the culture of the people running the government, with parent
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by geofft 5y ago
Prove it.
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by geofft 5y ago
This is a fantastic trick! By copying the source code (which is legal) but not declaring the dependencies in a package.json or similar, nobody will ever get on your case for CVEs in dependencies, and you can save so much time and churn by n
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by geofft 5y ago
I don't really know why you have to have kids to have an opinion. All of us have been kids, and "I hated things like this for reasons I couldn't express at the time and certainly wasn't allowed to express at the time,
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by geofft 5y ago
What I'd like to see is a Firefox (and Chromium) fork with - automatic builds and uploads via GitHub/GitLab CI (or similar) from a well-commented build script - all the knobs for reproducible builds set up, so anyone can fork the
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by geofft 5y ago
I don't understand. Is your claim that ATMs are running Windows XP because Microsoft did get buried under a pile of ash in the early '00s and released no further OS upgrades, and therefore it would have been better for the ATM m
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by geofft 5y ago
Right, I have to admit I don't entirely understand the .NET kerfuffle. .NET is clearly Microsoft's language ecosystem, just as much as Swift is Apple's, and much more so than, say, Go is Google's. A lot of the value in .
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by geofft 5y ago
So this is just the old "open source sustainability" problem. Open source has always been largely the work of people funded by hostile corporate interests. The very words "open source" came from hostile corporate inter
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by geofft 5y ago
What you call "capture of open source programming languages via binary blobs" is in fact someone trying to run a closed-source application and then being disappointed it doesn't work the way they want. It's a closed-so
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by geofft 5y ago
I don't understand this argument. It's okay for things to be a certain way, because things are typically that way? Apart from the circular reasoning, the practical impact is that you should also drop privacy review because corpora
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by geofft 5y ago
> Clicking a suspected phishing link is a failure, given the absolutely ridiculous amount of potential malware vectors such a site can have. This is absolutely untrue and it is phishing-vendor propaganda. If there are any "potenti
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by geofft 5y ago
I don't think that burnout is a function of seniority or lack thereof.
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by geofft 5y ago
Not disagreeing with you, but OP specifically mentions being burned out, and I think for this specific situation it may be better to cut losses and go elsewhere. If you have the energy and enthusiasm for fixing broken things, this is great
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by geofft 5y ago
I'm not sure I follow what you mean by auditing. Do you mean tracking whether employees fall for fake phishing attacks organized by the training companies? Everywhere I've worked that runs these campaigns, they do track whether pe
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by geofft 5y ago
Yes, I do. I could move to China any moment I wanted, if I wanted to live in an economy where the people who were previously in power remain in power and get nice things and promise everything works out in your favor. I plan to live and pu
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by geofft 5y ago
I understood your point full well, and it is both wrong and immoral. Prostitution does not have victims. Forcing someone into prostitution has a victim - the unwilling prostitute. This is a crime committed by the trafficker against the
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by geofft 5y ago
The trafficking of underage girls (and the trafficking of adults, for that matter) is a crime in and of itself, not because of what they are being trafficked to do, and it's a shockingly immoral misattribution of blame to say that the

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